Next Thursday (9/22) MSDN Events will host a half-day seminar covering important areas such as UI development, data access, and building high performance apps with ASP.NET 2.0. For more information and to sign-up, visit:http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US& EventID=1032277621 Rule the Web with ASP.NET 2.0 ASP.NET...

Head on over to Microsoft's Get The Betas page and order your copy for free while supplies last. You can also sign up to receive alerts of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 educational events and release details. (Thanks to Brian Keller of Coding4Fun fame for the link!)

Head on over to Microsoft's Get The Betas page and order your copy for free while supplies last. You can also sign up to receive alerts of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 educational events and release details. (Thanks to Brian Keller of Coding4Fun fame for the link!)

Victor Feintuch and I have created a new DsoFramer Enahcments Workspace over on GotDotNet for enhancements to Microsoft's DsoFramer control. Victor has already made some enhancements by fixing an event bug for events generated by hosted Office applications. We also plan to list known issues, workarounds, samples, etc., for community benefit...

In my last blog post, I wrote about two new tools for SharePoint that have come out that let you do a wiki and blog engine. Rob Howard, founder of Telligent Systems who builds Community Server, posted a comment to my blog with some very interesting news that was worth sharing: "Sharepoint integration is high on our list of important features...

WikiSharePoint - "A set of SharePoint web parts which make it possible to create a Wikipedia-like application in SharePoint Portal Server or Windows SharePoint Services. The project is in beta, but I would like share it and invite you to use and test it!" cBlog - A custom site definition to create a blogging engine in SharePoint...

A question I frequently come across is how to add some type of context information to UI controls in a Windows Forms project. For instance, you might have a textbox where you want to revert to the original value if a user decides to cancel edits, you could store the original value in the Tag property and pull that out when needed (if you're not...

This is great news for any of you who develop applications with the Compact Framework! The Microsoft patterns & practices team has joined forces with the OpenNETCF team to deliver high-quality p&p approved Application Blocks that address common challenges developer face when writing smart client applications for mobile devices. If you...

SharePoint Advisor Magazine was launched recently and has a good amount of high-quality articles that make it worth checking out. Here's a list of highlights from the premiere issue: Better Collaboration: Site Collections in SharePoint Portal Server 2003Site collections give Microsoft SharePoint users a place to collaborate and share...

One of my most favorite features of RSS Bandit is the ability to define 'Identities' that will highlight certain blog posts that mention your name (detected by a link to your blog) in them. For example, I was mentioned in the Daily Grind for my news announcement about NHibernate 0.8 -- take a look at the blog post highlighted in blue: If...

Microsoft has several articles (see below) on how to enable SSL communication with SQL Server 2000. This is useful to do if you want to ensure that the communication to your database server is encrypted and cannot be snooped with packet sniffers. If you are running SQL Server as a limited privilege domain account you’ll need to perform an...

NHibernate 0.8 has been released! If you haven't heard of NHibernate before, it is a .NET port of the popular Hibernate for Java object relational persistence library for databases. While I still haven't found a project to use NHibernate for my data access needs, it does seem like a very promising technology and is fairly well supported. I'd be...

If you have ever had the chance to browse through the Usenet newsgroups, you'll find an incredible resource of posts on a variety of technical topics, including just about every imaginable facet of .NET development. Google Groups is a web-based Usenet browsing application that lets you read and search through the Usenet posts. Before Google...

CodeSmith 3.0 enables software developers to efficiently: Reduce repetitive coding Generate your code in less time with fewer bugs Produce consistent code that adheres to your standards Create your own custom templates for any language I've used CodeSmith in the past with great success to automate generation of stored procedures, classes, etc.,...

From MSDN... Summary: This article explores the complete process of a Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET migration project. It covers all the aspects of migration, from the analysis of the business and technical requirements, to the guidelines for selecting a migration approach that include proven strategies and best practices. You will...